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Quotes about Aging

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better
— Oprah Winfrey
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
— Mark Twain
Nothing takes you from thirty years old to thirteen faster than your mother's voice rebounding up the stairs like a tennis ball after a forehand slice.
— Lisa Wingate
You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
— Hippocrates
Don't get old, if you can avoid it.
— Billy Graham
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
— Drew Barrymore
Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.
— Donald Miller
If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.
— James A. Garfield
This is Old Age; but then, thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty; which will change 540 To withered, weak, and gray; thy senses then, Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forego, To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry 545 To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.
— John Milton
The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.
— Gloria Steinem
I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.
— Mike Evans